Warner Bros. announced a Justice League VR experience today that ties into the upcoming movie. A demo is available in partnership with Gillette right now for iPhones and Android devices that let fans become Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Aquaman, and Cyborg. The first taste of the VR experience kicks off globally with a promotional demo…
Repeat after me, dear 360VR Community: Content is King. Samsung has made official a partnership with Red Bull to create more 360° video content for its Samsung Gear VR platform. The 360° Video content will be developed via Red Bull’s Rulebreakers promotional campaign, aiming to “inspire people to cross their limits and show what they’re really…
Daydream Elements launched at Google I/O this year. It’s a set of best practices and reusable code for some of the most fundamental things you do in VR — like walking around and interacting with the environment. So whether you’re a seasoned app developer, an immersive design enthusiast, or just curious about VR, you can…
Samsung Electronics will develop mental health diagnosis programs that use mobile virtual reality (VR), the company has announced. The tech giant signed a cooperation agreement with Gangnam Severance Hospital and VR content maker FNI for the programs, with the goal to commercialise them in 2018 in hospitals, dementia centres, and schools, before being expanded to homes…
UCLA researchers are the first to blend virtual reality with a surgically implanted prosthesis to reveal what happens in the brain when people create memories. Nanthia Suthana is one of the first neuroscientists in the world to harness the power of VR to unravel how someone’s brain encodes and retrieves memories while the person…
In 2015, 826 Valencia —an organization that helps under-resourced students develop their writing skills—won a Google.org Impact Challenge grant to expand their programs in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. After receiving the grant, 826 turned to a group of volunteer Googlers to figure out how to use technology to amplify students’ voices. The result was a story about a “planet ruled…
Hold on to your pantaloons, Gamers: The Nintendo Switch OS source code appears to contain code for partial Switch VR support, something that users have been hoping for and while, and it seems that we might have just found proof. Principal security consultant Cody Brocious posted some lines of code that he found in the Nintendo Switch…
Let me start by making a confession: I am not a Gamer. Despite the fact that I kinda suck at gaming, I’ve always found a bit of a guilty pleasure in watching others play games. Basically, I’m that friend that (very vocally) encourages you while you are kicking all the butts, pokes fun at you for…
According to a post on his personal blog, Eugene Wei has left Facebook. After enjoying a few Executive roles at Hulu and Flipboard, Wei joined Fb back in 2015. The post suggests that he would have left in mid-July, roughly around a few weeks after the in-house cinematic VR production team, Oculus Story Studio, was…
This one’s a shocker. It was less than a week ago that the 360VR Community rejoiced at the $200 price drop of the Vive, and now THIS.We have been publishing great news about the HTC Vive, through its use in Corporate Training via its Enterprise sector, so this report hit us like a ton of…
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